GovRateCodes answers one narrow set of questions well: does this hotel chain offer a government or military rate, who exactly qualifies for it, how do you actually book it, and what will the front desk ask for at check-in. It is a reference page per chain, a small set of guides on the machinery around those rates — GSA per diem, FedRooms, contractor eligibility — and a free checker that matches who you are against each chain's published policy.
There is no sign-up, nothing to install, and no account. The checker runs in your browser; we do not receive your employer, your travel dates or anything else you select.
Every eligibility rule, booking path and rate code on this site is read from the hotel chain's own published pages — its government-rate landing page, its booking engine's special-rate options, or its help and FAQ pages — and each chain page shows the source and the date we last checked it. Per-diem figures come from GSA's own published tables at gsa.gov, and program facts about FedRooms come from the program's own materials.
Nothing is taken from travel blogs, points forums or coupon sites, because those are exactly where wrong and expired codes propagate from. A code that circulates on forums but does not appear anywhere in the chain's own materials is treated as unpublished — at most we note that it is unofficial.
We say so. This is the rule that shapes the site more than any other.
Most chains do not expose a literal "code" at all — the government rate is a preference you select in their booking engine, and the eligibility fine print lives in the rate's terms. Some chains publish no government program whatsoever. In both cases the honest answer is the one we print: how the booking path actually works, or that no program exists. A traveler who books on an invented code and has the rate refused at the front desk — with a walk-up price and an ID check standing between them and their room — has been actively misled.
The same honesty applies to eligibility. Where a chain does not state whether contractors, retirees or leisure stays qualify, the page says "not published" rather than guessing, because the chain's front desk, not this site, decides.
It is a reference, not an authorization. Government and military rates are commercial rates set by each hotel chain: the chain defines who qualifies, hotels control how many rooms get the rate, and the person at the front desk can ask for ID and decline it. A result here saying you are eligible is the chain's published policy, not a guarantee of a room at that price. Every page carries a line telling you to confirm on the chain's own site, and that line is not a formality.
We are not affiliated with any hotel chain, with GSA, or with any government agency, and nothing here is government travel policy — for official travel rules, your agency's travel office is the authority.
The site may show advertising, and some outbound links may be affiliate links. Both are kept below the answer: no ad unit and no affiliate link renders above the result a page produces, and a check in our build fails the deploy if one ever does. Affiliate links carry rel="sponsored nofollow" and sit under a disclosure. Nothing we earn from changes a verdict — eligibility is computed from the chain's published policy and there is no path in the code by which a commercial relationship could alter it.
If a fact here is wrong or has gone stale, we want to know — chains change these programs, and a stale page can send somebody to a front desk expecting a rate that no longer exists. Write to hello@govratecodes.com with the page and the chain's own source, and we will check it and correct it.